I started to really learn about computers (i.e. using Debian instead of Windows) in the mid-2000's, but it wasn't until Chrome and Node.js popped up everywhere at the start of the next decade that I really began to dig into the issue of hardcore applications development.
So it was really a no-brainer for me to go along on the entire JS ecosystem ride of the 2010's, purely for the purpose of trying to get my computer to do what I wanted it to do (as opposed to making "apps" for everyone else).
In 2012, I started working on the code of the project now acronymically known as LOTW (Linux on the Web [1]), but I suppose it could just as easily have gone by the letters WDWT (Web Dev Without Tools).
So it was really a no-brainer for me to go along on the entire JS ecosystem ride of the 2010's, purely for the purpose of trying to get my computer to do what I wanted it to do (as opposed to making "apps" for everyone else).
In 2012, I started working on the code of the project now acronymically known as LOTW (Linux on the Web [1]), but I suppose it could just as easily have gone by the letters WDWT (Web Dev Without Tools).
[1] See: https://linuxontheweb.github.io/